单词 | quarter flood |
释义 | > as lemmasquarter flood 1. The flowing in of the tide. Often in phrases, ebb and flood, †tide of flood; also quarter flood, half flood, full flood, top of flood. Cf. young flood n. at young adj. and n.1 Compounds 6. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > ebb and flow ebb and flooda1000 tidea1500 recourse1549 flux and reflux1612 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > high main floodc1303 full flooda1375 full sea1390 high water1422 full water1498 full tide1538 high tide1546 tide1570 headwater1594 young flood1611 pleni-tide1617 top of flood1867 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > newly-flowing flood1559 young flood1611 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1031 Whenne þæt flod byþ ealra hehst & ealra fullost. a1000 Battle of Maldon 65 Þar com flowende flod æfter ebban. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 177 For swiche flode, and for swich ebbinge þe prophete nemmeð þis woreld se. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 20 Heo..wende uorþ with god wynd & wel dryuyng flode. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2745 At þe fulle flod þei ferden to sayle. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. iii. 47 For Swlway was at þare passyng All Eb, þat þai fand þan on Flud. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xcii. 114 They cast anker and abode the fludde. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. x. 47 Flood is when the water beginneth to rise, which is young flood as we call it, then quarter flood, halfe flood, full Sea, still water, or high water. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 323 The fish enter with the tide of flood. 1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 175 The flood runs 3 hours. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) Top of flood or high-water. quarter flood quarter flood n. chiefly Nautical (now rare) the state or time when the tide is about a fourth of the way between low tide and high water (see quot. 1867). ΚΠ a1450 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Bodl. 619) (1872) ii. Suppl. §46. 59 Half flode, or quarter flode. 1582 R. Madox Diary 2 Apr. in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 101 At a quarter flud we went a head with the mayn topsayl and so lowsyng we towed down past the Retch. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 17 [The sea] flowes, quarter floud, high water, or a still water. 1775 Let. 23 Apr. in J. Zevin Social Stud. for Twenty-First Cent. (2000) i. vi. 118 I..landed them on a point of marsh or mudland which is overflowed with the last quarter flood. 1801 Ld. Nelson 15 Aug. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 460 At last quarter-flood, at the Pier-head. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Flood When the water begins to rise, it is called a young flood, next it is quarter-flood, half-flood, and top of flood, or high water. 1910 Times 11 July 3/2 The tide was last quarter flood of about 1½ knots force. < as lemmas |
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